p. 19 | Forget Foolish Blue-Laws by S. B. H.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1911

“Forget Foolish Blue-Laws”

By S. B. H.

THE entangled affairs of Glen Echo, Md., growing out of ill-feeling provoked by an attempt to enforce the Maryland Sunday laws, have been finally straightened out, as it were, by the election of a new mayor, Mr. Robt. Garrett, who has adopted a “Glen Echo Decalogue,” in which the sixth and seventh sections say: “Forget foolish blue-laws;” “Enforce Sunday-closing laws.” The new mayor says, among other things, that the “blue-laws are a foolish part of the Maryland statutes,” and that he will make no attempt to enforce them.

Query: By what process of reasoning can Sunday laws be separated from the legislation rightly characterized as “blue-laws”? S. B. H.